Bodywork GRANTS for Bipoc & TRANS FOLK
I am offering partial and full scholarships for bodywork to anyone who identifies as BIPOC, Trans, or is a low-income Vermonter. Fill out the form below to request your session or sign-up for my waiting list.
What is a bodywork grant with Gaby?
A bodywork grant is a scholarship that grants access to healing and therapeutic bodywork to people who identify as BIPOC, Trans, or a low-income Vermonter, free of charge or at a sliding scale rate. Modalities I offer are massage therapy, energy balancing, sound therapy, yoga, and somatic experiencing.
Why does it exist?
Economic inequity, oppression, and racial injustice cause suffering and trauma to the people who experience it. When a person is exposed to injustice regularly, their quality of life and health may be impacted and can manifest in the body and nervous system, causing dysregulation. I believe that nervous system healing is social justice work. Bodywork offers an environment where deeper rest and relaxation are possible, offering space for relief and a reset, and is guided by the needs of the client. By working with a trusted practitioner, clients can create space for themselves to begin, or deepen, their healing journey through embodiment modalities and practices.
Everyone deserves to feel safe and at home in their bodies, being exactly who they are and just as they are. These modalities have transformed and strengthened my relationship to myself and my body, allowing space for trauma resilience and healing. The results I've experienced, are a deeper sense of self-worth, self-value, self-love, and self-trust. My hope and prayer for this grant program, is for Vermonters to have access to the modalities I offer at no or little cost to them and that they benefit from experiencing various therapeutic modalities in ways that enrich, transform, and inspire their lives.
How is the program funded?
When I began my career as a massage therapist, I did not accept gratuity and encouraged clients to put any extra funds towards future sessions, as a way to invest in themselves and their health and well-being. I still recommend this to clients with financial constraints.
While there is no expectation from clients to give gratuity, some offer it and I started to accept it as a way to fund partial and full bodywork grants and low-income sliding scale clients. Some grant recipients chose to pay it forward to keep the program going - This is welcome and not required. I am exploring ways to fiscally sustain this program and am accepting donations. Perhaps in the future I will apply for grants. I hope to grow this program beyond me and to include other practitioners who share the vision.
How can I help? Donate sessions from your package, pay gratuity, and send a Venmo @gabygyoga or PayPal Me (Write "Bodywork Grant"). BIPOC, Trans, and low-income Vermonters have asked how they can help to support this program. I don't have an answer yet, though I have a bigger vision that relates to access and healthcare justice... In the meantime you are welcome to pay it forward for a fellow grant recipient.
Thank you for stopping by and expanding your understanding of how bodywork and massage therapy can be a radical offering that supports collective healing and liberation of trauma, oppression, and economic injustice on an individual level. Bodywork is more than a luxurious spa experience - it is part of cultivating health, healing, and well-being for one's self and that effects the whole of which we are a part. I choose to offer this service because of my life experience and intersectional identity. More to come about that one day..
A bodywork grant is a scholarship that grants access to healing and therapeutic bodywork to people who identify as BIPOC, Trans, or a low-income Vermonter, free of charge or at a sliding scale rate. Modalities I offer are massage therapy, energy balancing, sound therapy, yoga, and somatic experiencing.
Why does it exist?
Economic inequity, oppression, and racial injustice cause suffering and trauma to the people who experience it. When a person is exposed to injustice regularly, their quality of life and health may be impacted and can manifest in the body and nervous system, causing dysregulation. I believe that nervous system healing is social justice work. Bodywork offers an environment where deeper rest and relaxation are possible, offering space for relief and a reset, and is guided by the needs of the client. By working with a trusted practitioner, clients can create space for themselves to begin, or deepen, their healing journey through embodiment modalities and practices.
Everyone deserves to feel safe and at home in their bodies, being exactly who they are and just as they are. These modalities have transformed and strengthened my relationship to myself and my body, allowing space for trauma resilience and healing. The results I've experienced, are a deeper sense of self-worth, self-value, self-love, and self-trust. My hope and prayer for this grant program, is for Vermonters to have access to the modalities I offer at no or little cost to them and that they benefit from experiencing various therapeutic modalities in ways that enrich, transform, and inspire their lives.
How is the program funded?
When I began my career as a massage therapist, I did not accept gratuity and encouraged clients to put any extra funds towards future sessions, as a way to invest in themselves and their health and well-being. I still recommend this to clients with financial constraints.
While there is no expectation from clients to give gratuity, some offer it and I started to accept it as a way to fund partial and full bodywork grants and low-income sliding scale clients. Some grant recipients chose to pay it forward to keep the program going - This is welcome and not required. I am exploring ways to fiscally sustain this program and am accepting donations. Perhaps in the future I will apply for grants. I hope to grow this program beyond me and to include other practitioners who share the vision.
How can I help? Donate sessions from your package, pay gratuity, and send a Venmo @gabygyoga or PayPal Me (Write "Bodywork Grant"). BIPOC, Trans, and low-income Vermonters have asked how they can help to support this program. I don't have an answer yet, though I have a bigger vision that relates to access and healthcare justice... In the meantime you are welcome to pay it forward for a fellow grant recipient.
Thank you for stopping by and expanding your understanding of how bodywork and massage therapy can be a radical offering that supports collective healing and liberation of trauma, oppression, and economic injustice on an individual level. Bodywork is more than a luxurious spa experience - it is part of cultivating health, healing, and well-being for one's self and that effects the whole of which we are a part. I choose to offer this service because of my life experience and intersectional identity. More to come about that one day..